Poll: Slow or Fast Zombies?

[Koganesaga]

Whichever ones don't have diarrhea cannons (inside joke, but still kinda funny).

Seriously though, give me m4, 5 clips, and a few buddies and I'll deal with whatever I have too.

 

[direkiller]

I cant see slow getting too many brains
Fast just seem like they would be a threat because you cant out walk them

Your avatar creeped me the fuck out.

glad you approve
Ozzy Osborn dreamer music video ftw

 

[Maltyz]

Slow down! I can't cut you up evenly if your running around!

 

[Snownine]

Both

 

[Zarthek]

Fast, due to a much MUCH bigger "Oh Sh*t where the heck did it come from!?" effect

 

[Daniel_Rosamilia]

I recently read a book with slow zombies.

The catch?

The animals could be infected.
...
And still run.

An interesting mix of the two to say the least.

At one point the group is collecting supplies at a docking area, being slowly surrounded.

When someone does notice, they see they're at least a few hundred yards away and ignores them.

His face gets ripped off by a charging zombie tiger from the Detroit Zoo because of it.

I'm now a fan of the author because of this book.

I must ask: Who is this author, and what is the book name?
I MUST acquire a copy, as to improve my zombie survival plans.

But I guess a mix of both would be neat. A horde of speeding zombies would be shit-scary.
Until they all start tripping over, then it's lol time.

 

[Hothcliff]

all of the above.

A zombie horde that moves slowly brings the inevitability factor in beautifully as they forage like a mob of hungry teenagers for delicious people.

A fast Zombie doesn't fuck around. It just want to brain you on the nearest surface and feast upon your corpse, none of the biding time that occurs with a slow horde.

my ultimate zombie fear would be a kind of zombie that walks relatively slowly but is prone to bursts of speed in pursuit of its prey (possibly visually based?). A pack mentality (clever girl) would magnify the terror.

 

[AWDMANOUT]

I really like the quick Nazi zombies.

But I must stay loyal to the greatest Zombie movie of all time, Shaun of the Dead.

 

[superbatranger]

For entertainment reasons, I'd go with fast zombies. But if I was in the middle of a zombie-infested apocalypse, I'd want them to be slow.

 

[Nigh Invulnerable]

Slow zombies. They're scarier. What they lack in adrenaline pumping terror they far make up for in psychological fear, with their inevitabiliy and feeling of dread.

Yes. Slow zombies create a much better atmosphere of tension and psychological oppression. Fast zombies are more of the "jump out and surprise you" sort of thing. I prefer the slow creepiness. I'll take Silent Hill over Doom any day.

 

[FourEyedPandora]

I normally like slow zombies, but I really like the Left 4 Dead series. Most of time time, running zombies really ruin the zombie feel for me. They're suppose to be slow because of muscle decay, but when I'm playing Left 4 Dead, it doesn't bother me as much. I think of the zombies in Left 4 Dead as mutations instead. It helps a little.

 

[Zigot66]

Slow

There is just something far more terrifying about a monster that inches its way toward you, slowly taking one more step toward your grizzly demise. Also it seems that fast zombies can be killed by any means that would kill a human, where slow zombies only die from head-shots/brain destruction. Left 4 Dead is great, but I think that an open-world zombie survival game where all the zombies are slow zombies would be awesome.

 

[OliveraFox]

Slow zombies just seem more believable and threatening in the long run, especially when 1 bite = death.

Fast zombies are terrifying, but I doubt they'd could go sprinting all the time.

 

[Blasphemous Rex]

Both are nice. Fast are more immediately terrifying, but slow have an interesting "swarm" effect, and generally are a lot tougher.

I really can't decide, but I hope they keep both and not just push out the slow in favour of the fast.

A theory I like is that they start out fast and gradually slow down due to rigor and decay.

That's actually a really good theory. I really like that theory. I said slow, because first of all we have only just begun to see fast zombies, making slow ones the original, and ever since fast zombies more and more stories feel the need to explain how it is that they become zombies! Rather a virus or some weird mutant toe fungus, sometimes it's best not to give an explanation.

 

[Catalyst6]

Definitely slow. Never was really sure how zombies can have such decay that their arms rot away and yet can make a showing in a marathon.

 

[Akiada]

I like both types. Variety is cool! Besides they're both fun in their own ways.

Fast. 28 Days Later and L4D zombies are far scarier than lumbering brain munchers to me. Why be afraid of what you can outrun?

Thing is the whole "I can outrun them!" doesn't take into account the world isn't a flat open plane where you can see everything coming. You can easily trip (potentially over one of the undead) or otherwise end up in a position where it's just you and a slowly advanced wall of undead and no escape.

Besides, the two types tend to be "balanced." Shamblers are slow, but nigh-invincible, nothing short of a brain injury killing them. Runners tend to be fast but fragile, dying to every means of murder a normal human will succumb - which means that unlike with shamblers you need not be a good shot to survive, you merely need to hit.

 

[TheEarlOfGrey]

Slow zombies, because they just look like drunks...

 

[ShrapnelHound]

George A. Romero zombie rules FTW

 

[spikeyjoey]

I cant see slow getting too many brains
Fast just seem like they would be a threat because you cant out walk them

youd be surprised what you cant "outwalk"

we used to play a "borg" game at school.. jabbing a guy in the neck with your fingers assimilates him, then hes borg.. but as a borg you cant run, (although walking briskly can be pretty quick..) but it always ended up as being the entire playground against one person, which was awesome fun

I like the resi 4 method.. they run to get close then slow down.. although it makes no sense...